How many times do you think Democratic cities need to see other Democratic cities destroy themselves with massive tax increases before they realize that it is not smart or sustainable? Considering New York is poised to elect a communist as mayor, probably at least a couple more. So we look to the northwest in Seattle, […]
Every year, when the National Center for Education Statistics publishes the Nation’s Report Card, it shows black students score well below their white counterparts. For example, in 2019, black students scored 30 points below white students in math, and in 2022, they scored 22 points behind in reading. Other data show that black students consistently […]
Society is backward. That impression is more intuitive than concrete, except when examining the modern posture toward parenthood. Then, statistics speak for themselves. For example, “By a ratio of nearly 50:1, women choose to terminate a pregnancy rather than place that child for adoption.” Researchers Ryan Hanlon and Elizabeth Kirk explain as much in an […]
Handed down on the last day of June, the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. CASA was the most important of the term. The court’s six Republican-appointed justices, in an opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, ruled that district court judges can no longer issue universal or nationwide injunctions. Such injunctions exploded in the first […]
In one of the earlier chapters of historian Walter A. McDougall’s recently compiled volume The Gems of American History: A Lecturer’s Art, we are treated to a pregnant aside. McDougall describes a 1790s letter exchange between Charles Thomson, “spy master and eminence grise of the American Revolution,” and President George Washington. Thomson apparently suggested to […]
We are six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, and the war that he had pledged to end “within 24 hours” is raging as fiercely as ever. After all his talk of walking away from forever wars, Trump has backtracked, sending Patriot missiles to Ukraine, threatening Russian President Vladimir Putin with 100% tariffs and, according to […]
The European Union has no designated capital, but everyone in Europe knows the EU’s unofficial headquarters is in Brussels, home to the EU’s bureaucracy and parliament. Not everyone knows that Brussels is the unofficial headquarters of three of the Muslim Brotherhood’s six pan-European organizations. The Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organizations, the European […]
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
Congress cleared a $9 billion package of spending cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting for President Trump's signature, codifying a small portion of Department and Government Efficiency savings.